Granby releases decreasing starting today

Our “second spill” from Lake Granby will be drawing to a close in the coming days. Last week’s monsoonal storms created some significant inflows to the system, causing us to increase and prolong our spill from what had been expected.

The diurnal (daily) snowmelt patterns are fading away. Notice on the North Inlet gage that the cyclic pattern is starting to flatten out. That means that the snow is nearly gone.

We will hold Lake Granby at elevation 8278.50 feet (that’s one foot below the operational full level) for a few days longer, just to ensure that we have space to store another rain event. After all, the monsoon pattern could shift back to the west in the coming days and weeks.



2011 spill releases from Lake Granby